Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Philippians 1:11

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 354, footnote 4 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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Oration on the Holy Lights. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3935 (In-Text, Margin)

... attain to that which is above, having themselves fallen from above upon the earth; nor that such a change in their glory and their first natures should have taken place. This is the meaning of their persecution of the creature. For this God’s Image was outraged; and as we did not like to keep the Commandments, we were given over to the independence of our error. And as we erred we were disgraced by the objects of our worship. For there was not only this calamity, that we who were made for good works[Philippians 1:11] to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be, were turned into a den of all sorts of passions, which cruelly devour and consume the inner man; but there was this further evil, that man actually made gods the advocates ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 12, page 76, footnote 2 (Image)

Leo the Great, Gregory the Great

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To Pulcheria Augusta about the self-seeking of Anatolius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 450 (In-Text, Margin)

... gospel-truth: so that by the removal of the mists of error the purest light might arise in the hearts of all, and that darkness-loving foe might not triumph over certain weak souls, whom not only those who stood unhurt but also those whom he had made to totter have overcome, and that by the abolition of error the true Faith might reign throughout the world, and “every tongue might confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father[Philippians 1:11].” But when the whole world had been confirmed in the unity of the Gospel, and the hearts of all priests had been guided into the same belief, it had been better that besides those matters for which the holy Synod was assembled, and which were ...